If she is semi-conscious, and there's much reason to believe she is, how much morphine would it take to keep her out of a living hell? It's evil. No other word describes what's happening to her. But one thing I've been told, a family saying that I don't know how far it dates back: "God will only allow you to feel so much suffering." He may comfort you with His tingling presence. Or, you may simply pass out. But I don't give the other side or those in doubt that satisfaction. So I hadn't mentioned it that much.
When we strip someone of all mercy but God's, that is evil, short and simple.
--FReegards....
It would seem that way. However, I was actually refering to the unfounded and arrogant attempts by some to put words into Terri's mouth, to intuit her desires. Fortunately we don't need to mimic the desires of other people to arrive at a moral conclusion. The case seems to be that our abilities, our technology requires us to fullfil a set of responsibilites that we would otherwise be exempt from doing. Without the technology, the health of a paralyized patient would, in the case of internal damage, end up being beyond the abilities of our hospices. Since we do in fact have respirators, plentiful resources, medicines, and a benevolent environment, it is (it was) our duty to aid this women in addition to nourishing her. Does that clarify things a bit? I realize that I can be overly abstract sometimes.